At the end of March, I was invited to Manchester Metropolitan University for the internal launch of the sector’s first Student Futures Manifesto or – in their words – Student Futures Commitment.
Asking universities to create Student Futures Manifestos was among the key recommendations of the final report of the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission, supported by Wonkhe, which had worked through most of 2021 to hear and understand students’ and the sector’s concerns about students’ futures after the pandemic.
In the report, we identified six key action themes which encapsulated the range of views we heard during the commission’s work.